Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

Women's 1000 metres at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 7
Competitors	27 from 12 nations
Winning time	1:28.43
Medalists
Tatyana Averina   Soviet Union   Leah Poulos   United States   Sheila Young   United States

Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men

The women's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 7 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2][3]

World record	Tatyana Averina (URS)	1:23.46	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	29 March 1975
Olympic record	Monika Pflug (FRG)	1:31.40	Sapporo, Japan	11 February 1972

The following new world and olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
7 February	Pair 1	Monika Holzner-Pflug	West Germany	1:29.54	OR
7 February	Pair 5	Leah Poulos	United States	1:28.57	OR
7 February	Pair 6	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	1:28.43	OR

Results

^[1]

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	6	o	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	1:28.43	–	OR
	5	o	Leah Poulos	United States	1:28.57	+0.14
	9	i	Sheila Young	United States	1:29.14	+0.71
4	7	i	Sylvia Burka	Canada	1:29.47	+1.04
5	1	i	Monika Pflug	West Germany	1:29.54	+1.11
6	2	i	Cathy Priestner	Canada	1:29.66	+1.23
7	5	i	Lyudmila Titova	Soviet Union	1:30.06	+1.63
8	8	o	Heike Lange	East Germany	1:30.55	+2.12
9	2	o	Makiko Nagaya	Japan	1:31.23	+2.80
10	10	i	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	1:31.59	+3.16
11	10	o	Sijtje van der Lende	Netherlands	1:31.66	+3.23
12	6	i	Monika Zernicek	East Germany	1:31.68	+3.25
13	3	o	Paula-Irmeli Halonen	Finland	1:31.72	+3.29
14	1	o	Ann-Sofie Järnström	Sweden	1:32.06	+3.63
15	11	i	Tetiana Shelekhova	Soviet Union	1:32.08	+3.65
16	4	i	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	1:32.50	+4.07
17	6	i	Tuula Vilkas	Finland	1:32.94	+4.51
18	3	i	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	Norway	1:33.05	+4.62
19	4	o	Ewa Malewicka	Poland	1:33.89	+5.46
20	12	i	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	Japan	1:33.99	+5.56
21	13	i	Ute Dix	East Germany	1:34.14	+5.71
22	12	o	Liz Appleby	Canada	1:34.27	+5.84
23	14	o	Christa Jaarsma	Netherlands	1:34.63	+6.20
24	9	o	Keiko Hasegawa	Japan	1:35.42	+6.99
25	7	o	Lee Nam-Sun	South Korea	1:35.58	+7.15
26	14	i	Janina Korowicka	Poland	1:35.81	+7.38
-	13	o	Peggy Crowe	United States	DQ

References

1. "Final Report - XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "1000m Ladies World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
3. "1000m Ladies Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 5, 2016.

Sports-Reference - 1976 - Women's 1000 metres